Psychotherapy

[Anonymous No.16492651]

Is this true?
>Mental illness is a complex problem and pharmacology is just one approach, based on trying to reduce everything to neurochemistry. I haven't seen any empirical evidence that supports this view beyond just some statistics, that a certain amount of people get "better" but I don't think you can rule out placebo or other factors. Actually, the entire field of psychotherapy, no matter which modality your therapist practices, statistically has about the same modest effect size (see Dodo bird verdict) which pretty much means that none of these approaches do anything beyond some common factors shit like the therapeutic relationship. It's all placebo at best.

>I'm not personally anti-psychiatry, but I'm pretty anti-pharma, since at least these other approaches are likely do little damage while messing with brain chemistry is bound to fuck you up eventually.

>There really isn't any solution out there for people dealing with anxiety and depression. You either get better randomly or it just gets worse and worse while you cope with "meditation" or buying more stuff or hoping to get to some arbitrary goal post that will make everything better.

[Anonymous No.16492657]

>start with the DSM
AHAHAHAHAHA

[Anonymous No.16492674]

start suffering

[Anonymous No.16493544]

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[Anonymous No.16493549]

>>16492651
This chart is garbage. Where's Kohut?

[Anonymous No.16493560]

Disastrous chart. Needs more:

Merton
Wallace
Darrin
Matthews
Sczezeshert
Fartman
Greenwog
Halter-Sarris
N'Goby

[Anonymous No.16494719]

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